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Reinterpretation of Spiritual Autobiography Genre in Richard Rodriguez’s Darling
Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2022 The article is focused on the reinterpretation of the genre of spiritual autobiography in Richard Rodriguez’s novel Darling. Rodriguez’s autobiographical prose depicts his extremely embittered attitude to heritage and the pitfalls lurking at the ...
Viktor Rakhnianskyi +3 more
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Mexican Village: Josefina Niggli’s Border Crossing Narrative
Text Matters, 2018 The paper presents Josefina Niggli (1910–83), an American mid-twentieth-century writer who was born and grew up in Mexico, and her novel Mexican Village (1945).
Jadwiga Maszewska
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Borders of the Self in Alfredo Véa's The Silver Cloud Café
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2001 I am proposing an analysis of a novel by Alfredo Véra, Jr., The Silver Cloud Café (1996). As the author of a narrative trilogy that includes La Maravilla (1993), and Gods Go Begging (1999), Véa has produced, in The Silver Cloud Café , a novel that
Roberto Cantú
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Living/leaving la vida loca: on barrios, Chicano youth and gangs.
Odisea, 2017 : Most US barrios are characterized by abundant academic failure, insufficient educational resources and high unemployment rates. In this context, the street becomes a place in which lower class Chicano kids find a space they belong to and a communal tie
Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo
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«Guadalupe» del Teatro de la Esperanza: espejo de una realidad
Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2011 Resumo: O presente trabalho analisa a obra Guadalupe do grupo teatral chicano El Teatro de la Esperanza; o estudo mostra como esta obra reflete, como um espelho, a realidade social, política e cultural da comunidade chicana na sociedade norteamericana, e
Cristiano Silva de Barros
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Educazione Interculturale, 2023 This contribution proposes a reflection on the impact of decolonial theories and practices in social pedagogy courses for future professionals in educational and care work (educators, social workers, rehabilitation experts and doctors). In these areas, a
Maria Livia Alga
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Acta Neophilologica, 2015 The article deals with the main female characters that appear in Sandra Cisneros' collection of vignettes, House on Mango Street (1991). It sheds light on their lives and motives for their actions, through social criticism of Gloria Anzaldúa and the main
Špela Grum
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
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Liminalities and Displacements: The Rites of Passage to Self-Identification in Chicano Writings
Revue LISA, 2013 The aim of this paper is to explore the hermeneutics of selfhood under conditions of excruciating socio-political injustice, and to detect the rites of passage to self-conceptualization as unravelled in two Chicano literary writings: Tomás Rivera’s “…y ...
Sophia Emmanouilidou
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